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Trojans exploit Mac OS X ARDAgent flaw
Building on the Trojan released last week, a group of hackers appear to be targeting the Mac OS X platform with more variations.
Last Thursday, Mac antivirus vendors Intego and SecureMac reported a serious vulnerability within the Apple Remote Desktop Agent (ARDAgent). It is part of the remote-management component of Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 and is owned by root. Thus, the ARDAgent executable runs this malicious code as root without requiring a password.
The Washington Post's Brian Krebs reported on Monday the presence of a hacker forum devoted to the development of Trojans around this … Read more
